Soviet disunion : a history of the nationalities problem in the USSR /
Bohdan Nahaylo and Victor Swoboda.
- 1st American ed.
- New York : Free Press, 1990.
- xvi, 432 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [412]-417) and index.
Nations of the Russian Empire -- 1917 revolutions : the empire breaks up -- 1919 : sovereign Soviet republics -- The Moslem nations -- National contracts with the non-Russians -- The national contract torn up -- Between Hitler and Stalin -- Stalin's last years : the terror against nations -- Towards a partial restoration of the national contract -- Khrushchev changes course again -- Brezhnev and Kosygin make their mark -- Forging the Soviet people -- Acceleration amid 'stagnation' -- Andropov and Chernenko keep up the pressure -- Gorbachev and the advent of glasnost' -- Glasnost' but no perestroika -- Crisis in the empire -- Waiting for Gorbachev.
A Munich-based writer on Soviet affairs explores current ethnic unrest in Russia, which may decide the fate of Gorbachev's reform government. Numerous non-Russian nationalities make up close to half the Soviet population, and this is the first book to look at the histories of these nationalities and their crusade for the restoration of national rights.